[petsc-dev] [mpich-discuss] MPICH migration to git

[Jed Brown]

On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 10:46 PM, Sean Farley
<sean.michael.farley at gmail.com>wrote:

> Jed, you have to realize that you're the only one in this thread that
> has been disgruntled with mercurial. Even that random dude that
> commented still doesn't like git.
>
> Yes, yes, git did this light-weight branching first. But, IMHO,
> mercurial has done it in a cleaner way. And I'll take cleaner and
> better thought out than quick and dirty any day.
>

It should be obvious that I started the thread mostly to instigate. I
didn't expect the trolling conditions to be so good tonight. ;-D

However, you'll notice quite a number of rants within our circles on G+
(and at large) from people that used hg for a long time and haven't looked
back since switching to git. The opposite is rare to non-existent. In the
end, I don't think it's deeply important either way, but a lot of our
"peer" projects have recently switched for technical reasons and it's
potentially fewer tools to install/systems to remember. Oh, and the git
emacs support is so much better.
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